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Driving Simulation and AI Deepen Insights into Impulsivity
Lab experiments sometimes have participants engage in tasks that don’t capture the full range of behaviors people display in their day-to-day lives, but pairing realistic tasks with machine learning could help researchers more accurately assess individuals’ personality traits.
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Distracted Driving Is More Dangerous Than People Realize, New Research Shows
In 2021 more than 3,500 drivers in the U.S. alone died in traffic accidents linked to distracted driving. Using a cell phone is the primary source of distraction, but entering navigational information, trying to eat and performing
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A Cloudy Future: Why We Don’t Trust Algorithms When They’re Almost Always Right
Researchers explore our preference for human skill and instinct over technologies that have proven themselves better than us at driving, performing surgery, and making hiring decisions.
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A Cloudy Future: Why We Don’t Trust Algorithms When They’re Almost Always Right
What explains our preference for human skill and instinct over technologies that have proven themselves better than us at driving, performing surgery, and making hiring decisions?
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on training learning strategies, experience vividness and forms of consciousness, boredom and self-control, driverless vehicles and dilemmas, and the effects of childhood adversity.
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Experienced Drivers Keep Their Eyes on the Road Differently
It can take years for motorists to fully develop the cognitive processes required to navigate safely, including learning to scan a wider swath of the road ahead.
